Originally Posted by
sailingfun
SWA may be the highest paid now but they got their by accident and neither the company or SWAPA want them to stay there. In the next 10 years the historical pay differences will realign. SWAPA is very aware of what the loss of a portion of SWA historical cost advantage has been to the bottom half of the seniority list there. That is why they have not made a single attempt at any significant boost in wages from what they achieved off the majors contracts before they all filed for Chapter 11. They have had multiple opportunity to attempt to do so.
Yes. Every Southwest pilot will tell you how worried they are that they are making too much money. They lay awake at night figuring out how to lower their paychecks so the company won't lose its historical cost advantage.
Thankfully, we have ALPA making sure that the Delta pilots are never confronted with that terrible dilemma.